Illegal abortions 'killing South American women'
Every year four million women in Latin America have an illegal abortion, according to the World Health Organisation.
Preventing illegal abortions, which leave hundreds of thousands of woman dead or seriously injured, has been the focus of the conference in Mexico. Many groups present believe the only way to reduce the numbers is to make the practice legal.
“It is the first to the third cause of maternal death in different countries in Latin America,” the chair of the conference, Maria Consuelo Mejilla - director of Catholics For The Right To Decide, a Mexican pressure group - told BBC World Service’s Outlook programme.
“It is affecting mostly poor women.
“Unsafe and illegal abortion in Latin America is a social justice problem. Women who have no resources die.”
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